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Al Jahrā’ Air quality today
Air quality in Al Jahrā’ currently reads AQI 27 (Good): Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
AQI 27
Air quality right now
Good
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 4.6
- tree cover
- 1.2%
- trees in this area
- 3.8K
- more trees needed
- 90.5K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Block 3, Al Jahra, Kuwait (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 16, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Al Jahrā’ · AQI 27 (Good)
Al Jahrā’'s tree count comes to 3,770 trees across 12.57 km², 29 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 90,478 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Al Jahrā’ today: AQI 27, Good
Main pollutant: PM10 · Observed Nov 11, 19:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · Al-Jahra, Kuwait (الجهراء), 2.6 km away
Health signal
Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
PM2.5
4.6
PM10
29.2
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK)
- Outdoor exercise
- A good day to be active outside
- Windows
- Open them to air the house
- Mask
- Not needed
- Air purifier
- Not needed
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Jahrā’'s daily AQI at 162 on average, from 99 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 257 on Nov 7.
Where Al Jahrā’ stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Al Jahrā’: Critically low
1.2% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
3,770
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
90,478
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,991 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Al Jahrā’ lost?
There was almost no forest around Al Jahrā’ in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from September 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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Frequently asked
Questions about Al Jahrā’
What is the air quality (AQI) in Al Jahrā’ right now?
The latest reading for Al Jahrā’ shows an AQI of 27 (Good), measured Nov 11, 19:00 local time by the Al-Jahra, Kuwait (الجهراء) ground monitoring station, 2.6 km away, via OpenAQ. The main pollutant is PM10. Air quality is satisfactory for everyone.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Al Jahrā’ today?
At AQI 27 (Good): a good day to be active outside. Windows: open them to air the house. Masks: not needed. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Al Jahrā’ been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Al Jahrā’'s daily AQI at 162 on average, from 99 on Nov 4 to an hourly peak of 257 on Nov 7. On 6 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Al Jahrā’ lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Al Jahrā’ in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Al Jahrā’?
Al Jahrā’ has an estimated 3,770 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 1.2% tree cover, 29 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Al Jahrā’ need?
Al Jahrā’ needs roughly 90,478 more trees to close a 29-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 1,991 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Al Jahrā’'s air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Block 3, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Block 3; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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